N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. Million; not big, but interesting.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

After so many years of successful partnering with Jack Zenger at his previous company (he headed up Zenger Miller when I was a partner in The Achieve Group), I am quite excited to be working with him and his colleagues again. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. And they’ve only just begun.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Thought leader Sharon Drew Morgen has uncovered what keeps organizations from moving forward and in her new book, Dirty Little Secrets , she reveals what potential buyers need to know to expedite the process of bringing positive change to their companies. As a result, I had nothing to do but grow my company. The result?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Kristi Daeda ​"I help individuals and companies make the most of talent. Czar "I rescue troubled companies. Pioneer in wellness and prevention programs, disease management and population health."

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). Companies are increasingly global. you have to be the best CFO in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. The CFO's skepticism was proved correct, and I lost all credibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

based software company that went public just last year, I know this well. And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. Our company, QlikTech , started out in Sweden 18 years ago.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! Always respond quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. How do emotions shape strategy making?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. The executives of Fortune 500 companies might be able to lose the same bet with impunity, and the founders of venture capital-funded startups are only renting the farm (with the VC’s money) anyway. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you’re not turning your company into a “math house” you’re headed for serious trouble. Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Yet this style of interaction is less likely as work stretches across locations and company boundaries as we telecommute, crowdsource, and take on joint ventures. This is a classic topic in the management field. In 2011, I talked with Doyle Hopper, general manager of Nucor''s Vulcraft Group and Nucor Cold Finish.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 What they really talked about, though, was mainly just what they're planning to do with the $34 billion in cash the company has here in the U.S. tax burden.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

A question that could tell you a lot about the company''s potential under this leader. How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". First off, if the company doesn''t have a CSO and the chief executive thinks the "S" has something to do with sustainability, just fire him.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Focusing on Employee Engagement: How to Measure it and Improve It UNC: Kenan-Flaglar Business School, 2011. Canadian HR Reporter, March 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. But companies will need new positions as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Sarah was a longtime director of the company that J.P. In Sarah’s opinion, the problem was obvious: Sid Yerby, the CFO. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. It’s that board I’m on — the real estate company.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. Generally speaking, firm management did not ensure proper controls and oversight at CIO as its trades became more complex and risky.

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